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“There once was a man who lived in an empire preoccupied with food. It was said of him that he opened an underground business that sold soups so good that when government officials tasted them, their eyes lit up and they carried that light into the higher offices and courts but could no longer pretend to be loyal to the system that ruled us—and they all lost their offices. But the soup factory kept going, tomato soups and spinach soups and onion soups with fish.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, “Little Pot,” My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Ed. Kate Bernheimer)